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Understanding why treatment fails can change how we think about relapse, recovery and the psychology of addiction.
Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) and Addictions are a major public health concern, affecting people’s health and well-being at all ages. The intention behind this collection was to publish original research articles on SUDs and related addictions. These articles would address genetic, neurobiological, psychological, and environmental risk factors for the development of these disorders, as well as approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Thirteen articles covering a wide range of topics related to different SUDs and behavioral addictions, as well as human and animal studies from basic and clinical research, were received and have been summarized in this editorial. Each of the articles has made a significant contribution to our scientific understanding of addiction, with the potential to inform clinical applications. We hope that the findings revealed by this collection of articles, along with the broader efforts of the scientific and clinical communities around the world, will lead to the development of better tools and methods for preventing, diagnosing, and treating substance use disorders (SUD) and behavioral addictions.
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There is active scientific debate about the nature of addiction as a mental disorder, but with comparatively little discussion of nosology itself. To contribute to the ongoing dialogue, this review provides a concise history of the formal medical diagnoses used to define addiction clinically and vanguard contemporary perspectives. The history of addiction as a medical diagnosis starts at the beginning of the 20th century in the first International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and was present in 1953 in the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Across iterations of both systems, the evolving nosology can be broadly divided into three epochs, an early primeval period (1900–1948), reflecting coarse definitions subsumed within personality disorder; a phenomenological period (1948–1980), reflecting descriptive definitions; and an empirically-informed period (1980 to the present), comprising operational definitions of polythetic syndromes, increasingly informed by empirical findings. Contemporary priorities suggest an emerging fourth epoch, prioritizing a diagnostic nomological network of objective etiologically-informed tests via, for example, the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) and Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment (ANA) frameworks. Both RDoC and ANA focus on using objective mechanistic indicators to decrease subjectivity in diagnosis and increase alignment between etiology and diagnosis. Next-generation diagnostic approaches are anticipated to enhance incisiveness in psychiatric diagnosis and in turn improve clinical outcomes. Tracing the vicissitudes of addiction nosology over the past century reveals an evolution that is both more humane and scientific, from moral weakness and personality defect toward diagnostic definitions and practices that are grounded in empirical evidence.
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